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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk

Birmingham Live - Birmingham news, features, information and sport

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

8 sec

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit blogs.birminghammail.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Blogs Birmingham Mail content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blogs.birminghammail.co.uk

Updated around the clock with Birmingham news, information, what's on, comment and in-depth coverage of Aston Villa, Birmingham City, West Brom, Warwickshire Cricket Club and other sports

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.birminghammail.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.292

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk

219 ms

www.birminghammail.co.uk

159 ms

section-base.css

400 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

383 ms

marwood-extended.css

381 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.birminghammail.co.uk, 30% (24 requests) were made to S2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk and 10% (8 requests) were made to Birminghammail.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Stmg-prod.mirror.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 663.4 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

439.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.birminghammail.co.uk main page is 1.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 734.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 637.3 kB

  • Original 734.4 kB
  • After minification 733.7 kB
  • After compression 97.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 637.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 55.1 kB
  • After minification 52.7 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Blogs Birmingham Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 265.2 kB
  • After minification 265.2 kB
  • After compression 242.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 47.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Blogs.birminghammail.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (69%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Birmingham Mail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk

219 ms

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www.birminghammail.co.uk

159 ms

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400 ms

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383 ms

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381 ms

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377 ms

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995 ms

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370 ms

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503 ms

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940 ms

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937 ms

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967 ms

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524 ms

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699 ms

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1483 ms

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929 ms

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479 ms

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505 ms

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286 ms

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279 ms

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625 ms

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625 ms

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149 ms

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118 ms

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91 ms

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87 ms

Accessibility Review

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.birminghammail.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Blogs.birminghammail.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

blogs.birminghammail.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blogs Birmingham Mail. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: